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Show Voting Is Sowing We Reap What We Sow The Sept. 18 "Buy American" letter to the editor took me back to 1986 when my daughter used to wake up in middle of the night and start crying, cry-ing, not knowing what she wanted. Americans who are joining the circus of "Buy American" need to sit down and look at their pension plan, 40 IK, etc. Billions of dollars in profits are coming from overseas. McDonalds has 30,000 outlets; 13,000 outlets are in North America which are low-profit in a saturated market. Profit comes from 17,000 outlets overseas. Most pension plans (janitor to commissioners) and 401K's are invested in more than 75 percent Fortune 500 companies, most of which make their money overseas. Other countries cannot allow American companies just to get in their country and sell products. prod-ucts. To get in, American companies com-panies have to create jobs there in exchange for a market in those countries (Retail market: world, population is more than five billion. Asia has more than three billion, South America more than one billion, Europe more than one billion, Africa more than one and one-half billion, bil-lion, and the U.S.A., only 0.4 billion). Coke, Pepsi, etc., all have profits coming from overseas. In the 1970's American seniors were enjoying good pensions because their pensions were invested in South Africa (a 40 to 200 percent return) where blacks were buried alive. Harvard University (from the liberal northeast area, uncivilized?) uncivi-lized?) was first to pull out $200 million dollars from South Africa and created a domino effect. Did we ever hear Nixon, Carter, Reagan interested in talking with Nelson Mandella ? China is certainly in violation, viola-tion, exceeding $12 billion dollars dol-lars worth of goods in the U.S.A. but not opening its market mar-ket for us (it's called trade imbalance!). We can certainly stop goods from China asking China to balance it first. Since 2001 we have had a Republican senate, Republican congress, Republican president, etc. They are busy doing what? Folks, it's party time (chicken guarding the chickens) and we are paying for it. More than 20 years ago I was living in Boston. General Electric was closing its iron manufacturing plant, with more than 7000 employees from Chikopee, Mass., to Brazil and Hong Kong. It was a main topic of discussion in the state (like the Iraq war today) and I was moved by it, too. CBS' "60 Minutes decided to do a show on it. Lots of people argued, cried, etc., on TV. In the end, a CBS photographer took a picture pic-ture of the employee parking lot and put it on TV. It contained more than 70 percent foreign-made foreign-made cars. The North American Treaty, (See LETTERS on page 5A) Letters To The Editor From Page 3A WTO, etc. are widely supported by Republicans. Our government govern-ment doles out $190 billion per year to farmers, killing other farmers overseas. Willie Nelson raised $28 million dollars in the last five years for young American Farmers to survive but USDA (our tax dollars) put out $40 million in grants asking US farmers not to farm. I run a motel in Panguitch. Americans are asking for $35roomday plus a 10 percent discount based on senior citizens, citi-zens, tax included, etc. Aren't they indirectly thanking Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein? We buy Windows 98 for less than $99 because of Banglore, India. We used to pay more than 20 cents a minute for phone. Now we are paying less than three cents ' a minute. Recently, the Indian government was on a shopping spree (U.S. $17 billion) for military equipment. equip-ment. Seven or more U.S. companies com-panies were there to dump their products. Forget "Made in America", and let's look at products churned out by the Garfield ' County School District. Some of them are our local leaders today. And look at Dick Cheney (another product of the western , U.S., Wyoming). We are paying more than $5 billion dollars a month to digest the Iraq fiasco. Cheney owns more than . 420,000 shares of ; KBRHalliburton Corporation which makes money working in -Iraq without a bidding process. Bush, Jr., says "He (Saddam . Hussein) tried to kill my dad (Bush, Sr.)" Is Bush, Sr. equal toworth three million jobs plus a loss of more than 250 young . U.S. military personnel, plus $200 billion for Iraq, plus tril- lions of dollars loss in our economy? econ-omy? Folks, one of the basic requirements for national and world leaders is to be ready to die for people. Voting time means sowing time. One reaps what heshe sows. .; Harshad P. Desai Panguitch r |